FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDEN. 101 
They are almost equal to the “ genuine” in flavor and more healthy, 
and can be kept in the ground during the winter, also in your cellar 
packed in sand. Plant sugar beets, mangolds or squash for stock, 
on land not required for the family garden. 
Insect Protection—Protect all vines from bugs, frost, etc., by 
covering with boxes 8x10inches, made of ship-lap siding, covered 
with a light of glass, a small hotbed, or cover sashes with cheese 
cloth painted with linseed oil, making the same transparent. 
Destroy cut worms with one part Paris green to twenty parts of 
shorts, well mixed, scattered near plants. 
Destroy cabbage worms with one part sulphur to 100 parts air 
slaked lime dusted on plants. 
Destroy plant lice with kerosene and sour milk emulsion, two 
parts kerosene to one part sour milk, thoroughly mixed by churn- 
ing or by shaking ina jug; add fifteen to twenty parts of water, and 
apply with spray pump or sprinkler. 
Bordeaux Mixture: Two pounds of quick lime slaked in twenty 
gallons of water, and three pounds blue vitriol intwo gallons water. 
Strain the lime mixture through burlap into the blue vitriol water 
mix and use with spray pump for all fungous diseases of plants 
and trees. Add ¥ pound of Paris green to this to destroy the cod- 
ling moth and other insect pests. 
Destroy currant worms, etc. with one ounce white hellebore in one 
gallon of water, and spray or sprinkle. Insect powder destroys 
nearly all insect life when applied with a powder gun, but it is ex- 
pensive and frequently of poor quality. 
Results.—One acre of your farm arranged, planted and cultivated 
as the diagram and directions suggest, will give some idea of the 
value and possibilities of a garden. My family is supplied with 
fresh small fruits nearly three months, with apples nine months of 
the year, and by preserving fruits and vegetables, which can be 
done so easily with Mason cans, our table is supplied nearly every 
meal during the year with some product of our fruit and vegetable 
garden, saving the expense of meats, often diseased, and many other 
“store” products, which cost money and are frequently entirely unfit 
for food. Plant this garden next spring and be convinced of its 
value. 
To encourage the children, allow them to sell all surplus vege- 
tables and fruit, and then to retain the money for their personal use. 
N. B.—I wish to «all the attention of our northwestern fruit grow- 
ers and gardeners to the many helps and valuable suggestions 
which save time and money and many disappointments, as given 
by practical men of large experience, through the books, magazines 
and other publications of the Minnesota State Horticultural Soci- 
ety. Write A. W. Latham, Sec., Minneapolis, Minn., enclosing $1.00, 
which will give you a membership, the monthly magazine, a cloth 
bound report of 550 pages, and also several valuable plant premi- 
ums which you can select from a list he will send you. Also sub- 
_scribe for our state farm journals. Often a single article or sug- 
gestion from these papers is worth and will save in time and 
money several times the cost of the subscription. If I had time 
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